Ebay is your best friend. I suggest you look at both the Nokia and SE European websites. There are a lot of nice gsm phones that we don't get here; a lot of them are available online.

Here ya go Ebay: SE K750

I vote for the turdberry 8700... just got mine.. much better than the previous ones..

How did you get it? Even though Cingular was saying that it'd be released on Friday, the local Cingular store told me they had delayed the launch for another week!

I don't know that I need a BB, but I may consider it. I wanted to play with one first, but...

Juan

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Whenever I text "Barack," my phone suggests the word "Capable." I guess my my phone IS pretty smart.

the company got it for us through b2b.. awesome phone and web browsing and data/IM is so much better than my 7100g.

Which carrier you want to stay with? The SE W800 is a good walkman phone if you need to reduce one gadget to carry around. All SE phones are not that rugged in my opinion.

what about the..nokia 5140 , if you're into gadgets, this one has a lot to offer..(i'm selling one on ebay.. ) any kind of gadget, it has one except a microwave oven

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No bluetooth, though?

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Whenever I text "Barack," my phone suggests the word "Capable." I guess my my phone IS pretty smart.

I want to stay with Cingular. I agree with you that SE phones tend to not be as rugged as Nokia. They also tend to be lacking in terms of reception. My main criteria for a phone is slimness/sleekness + a doze of coolness/uniqueness. If the phone didn't have camera + walkman, etc, it wouldn't bother me. I'm more into phones with unique form factors that are still simple and efficient to use: which is kinda hard to find these days because cell phone companies are jamming everything in they can. At the end of the day the phone is used to make calls. Thanks for suggestions guys.

did you check with howard chui?
he's got a lot of phone reviews that might help you...

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